<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.mysqli.html">MySQLi</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="mysqli.overview.html">Overview</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.mysqli.html">MySQLi</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.mysqli" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="para"> The <em>mysqli</em> extension allows you to access the functionality provided by MySQL 4.1 and above. More information about the MySQL Database server can be found at <a href="http://www.mysql.com/" class="link external">» http://www.mysql.com/</a> </p> <p class="para"> An overview of software available for using MySQL from PHP can be found at <a href="mysqli.overview.html" class="xref">Overview</a> </p> <p class="para"> Documentation for MySQL can be found at <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/" class="link external">» http://dev.mysql.com/doc/</a>. </p> <p class="para"> Parts of this documentation included from MySQL manual with permissions of Oracle Corporation. </p> <p class="para"> Examples use either the <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/world-setup/en/index.html" class="link external">» world</a> or <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/sakila/en/index.html" class="link external">» sakila</a> database, which are freely available. </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.mysqli.html">MySQLi</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="mysqli.overview.html">Overview</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.mysqli.html">MySQLi</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
